Ennis

15,623 people in the United States were counted with the surname Ennis in the 2020 census, making it the 2,271st most common in the country. That is about one person in 19,100.

By the numbers

People: 15,623
Rank: 2,271st
How common: 1 in 19,100
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Ennis described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.2%
Black, not Hispanic 12.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Ennis

Garth Ennis (born 1970)British comics writer
Tyler Ennis (born 1994)Canadian basketball player
James Ennis (born 1990)American basketball player
Tyler Ennis (born 1989)Canadian ice hockey player

People named Ennis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Also a first name

Ennis has been given to 3,524 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.